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Food waste creates costly greenhouse gas emissions. Recycling it can help.
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Taxes were due on Monday for individuals and many corporations. But a new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows that 69% of Connecticut corporations paid very little in state corporate income tax between 2016 and 2018.
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More than 100 volunteers hand-planted 20,000 stems of beach grass along an 800-foot stretch of Lobsterville Beach last week. By using this all-natural defense against erosion, the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe hopes to protect its homelands on Martha’s Vineyard from the impacts of climate change.
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As capacity shortages in slaughterhouses complicate business for livestock farmers, two specialty sausage makers are starting their own animal processing facility.
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The northernmost reaches of Somerset County in Maine could become one of the last strongholds of syrup production in New England.
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A quarter of a billion dollars in federal cash will soon flow into state transportation work.
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Yale University Art Gallery delivered stolen artifacts valued at more than $1 million to the New York District Attorney's Office. This comes amid a long-running investigation into suspected art trafficker Subhash Kapoor.
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The dairy industry relies on truckers to get milk from the farm to the processing plant. People in the industry say while the pandemic exacerbated transportation issues, not having enough milk haulers is a longstanding problem.
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Attorneys for InfoWars host Alex Jones say he’ll finally sit for a deposition in a defamation lawsuit filed against him by families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Jones was sued in 2018 by the families for making false claims about the shooting. Though Jones has already been found liable for defamation, the case continues as a jury still needs to determine how much Jones owes in damages.
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The Connecticut economy continued its comeback in February from pandemic-induced job losses. The state has recovered more than 80.5% of the jobs lost since early 2020, according to new data out Thursday from the state Department of Labor.